Couples with age gap may be poorer and not much wiser

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Couples with big age differences rate lower than average when it comes to income and intelligenceGreg Ceo/Getty Images

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Published at 12:01AM, May 8 2013

Marrying a cougar or a sugar daddy may not be all it is cracked up to be.

Away from the world of celebrity, where there is no chance of landing a Hugh Hefner or a Demi Moore, couples with big age differences rate lower than average when it comes to income and intelligence, a study claims.

And it seems the men do worse than the women when they marry someone a lot older or a lot younger, according to economics professors at the University of Colorado.

Men married to a woman either eight years older or eight years younger earned,